Display-card.



E. UNDERwooD.

DISPLAY CARD. APPLICATION FILED hiv/12,1916` lg, Patentedept. 4,191?. y

. El?! l EARL UNDERWOOD, OF NEVI YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF KREMENTZ @e CO., 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A COPARTNERSI-IIP CONSISTING OF GEORGE KRE- MENTZ .AND CARL H. LEBKUEOHER.

DISPLAY-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept.. d, 191W.,

Application led May 12, 1916. Serial No. 97,020.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that EARL UNDERwooD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have in vented a certain new and useful improvement in Display-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to easel display stands or cards for collar buttons, and its object is to provide a device of this character which will hold the collar buttons firmly without sagging and with the axes of all substantially in parallelism, which will eX- pose as much of the buttons as possible, wherein the operation of inserting the buttons may be performed easily and quickly, and which may be refilled repeatedly without injury to the card and always holding the buttons friction tight. These ends are attained by the features and combinations, a preferred embodiment of which will now be briefly described.

n the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the display stand with collar buttons in s ome of the pockets;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged face view of a portion of the body of the card with the facing sheet removed;

Fig. t is an enlarged section on the line 4 4 of Fig. l, showing one of the pockets empty;

Fig. 5 is a similar view, 'showing the pocket filled; and

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. l.

The stand comprises a card l, of suitable outline, which in use is supported in a slightly inclined position by a hinged rear bracket 2.

The card is composed of a body 3 of suitable thickness, preferably of cardboard, having cavities 4, preferably though not necessarily circular in outline, arranged in accordance with the design which it is desired that the collar buttons shall form on the card. These cavities are closed at the back by a rear wall, formed by a sheet 5 glued to the body. A facing sheet 6 is secured in like manner to the front of the body, and has V slots or slits 7 and tongues 8 in front of the cavities.

The facing sheet 6 is made of moderately stifl paper stock or its equivalent, and is preferably formed at its slotted regions in such manner that the upper portions of' the outer edges of the slots project somewhat forward of the general plane, while the tongues 8 incline backward into the cavities. This permits the ready insertion of the collar buttons, while at the same time the resilient pressure of the tongues against the backs of the buttons holds the same firmly in place. In this connection the rear walls of the cavities formed by the back sheet 5 reinforce the tongues and prevent their being bent too far rearward or becoming broken. The V slots, it may be noted, are most advantageously formed with flaring curved sides rather than with straight edges, since the curved form shows more of the bases of the buttons as well as facilitates their entry. The facing sheet 6 is advantageously provided with a felt or pile surface 9 or an equivalent soft or velvety finish, which furnishes an attractive background for the articles, and by covering the tongues 8 increases the security with which they are held.

What is claimed as new is:

l. A display stand for collar buttons comprising a board body having cavities and a facing sheet having V slots and tongues in front of the cavities, the slots being formed to receive the Shanks of the buttons and the tongues being the portions of the facing sheet partially severed by and within the tf-slots and adapted to press against the backs of the buttons within the cavities.

2. A holder for collar-bnttons comprising a body-portion provided with pockets closed at the bottom, in combination with tongues disposed over said pockets and inclined toward the bottom thereof, the free terminals of said tongues projecting into said pockets.

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3. A collar-button holder comprising a sheet having V cuts therein and Substantially triangular tongues formed by the portions of the Sheet partially severed by and Within the V Cuts, the divergent ends of the V cuts; affording Wide entrances t0 admit the bases of the buttons, which pass behind the sheet,

in place.

EARL UNDERWOOD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cen-ts eah, by addressingA the VL(loimx'xissionr .o1 yla-ients.

Washington, ID..C.A Y 

